The Big Data explosion in recent years has created a vast number
of new technologies in the area of data processing, storage, and
management. One of the biggest names to appear on the scene is
Hadoop. In case you need a quick review, Hadoop is a Big Data storage system that
takes in large amounts of data from servers and breaks it into
smaller, manageable chunks. The technology is complex but at a
high level the Hadoop ecosystem essentially takes a “divide and
conquer” approach to processing Big Data instead of processing
data in tables, as in a relational database like …

While I previously blogged about installing Netbeans 8, some of my students
would prefer to use the Eclipse IDE. This post shows how to
install and configure Eclipse IDE, include the
mysql-connector-java.jar, and write Java to access the MySQL.

You can download Eclipse IDE and then open it in
Fedora’s Archive Manager. You can use the Archive
Manager to Extract the Eclipse IDE to a directory
of your choice. I opted to extract it into my
student user’s home directory, which is
/home/student.

Some of my students want to use the Fedora image that I built for
my database classes in my Java software development life cycle
course. As a result, they wanted a Java development environment
installed. I examined JDeveloper 11g (11.1.1.7.0) and
12c (12.1.3) but resolved on the more generic Netbeans 8
(8.0.2) IDE.

Just as several other MySQL products, Connector/J source code
management moved to Git and, pretty much as expected, to GitHub. Our reasoning is
nothing else than listening to our users demands and trying to
follow best trends and practices. There was nothing significantly
wrong with Bazaar and Launchpad, as they served us well for the last
seven years. It was just time to move on. …

It turns out that configuring Perl wasn’t the last step for my
student instance. It appears that I neglected to configure my
student instance to support Java connectivity to MySQL. This post
reviews the configuration of Java to run programs against MySQL.
It also covers the new syntax on how you register a
DriverManager, and avoid Java compilation errors
with the older syntax.

Talking with Percona Live attendees last year I heard a couple of
common themes. First, people told me that there is a lot of great
advanced content at Percona Live but there is not much for people
just starting to learn the ropes with MySQL. Second, they would
like us to find a way to make such basic content less expensive.

I’m pleased to say we’re able to accommodate both of these wishes
this year at Percona Live! We have created a two-day intensive
track called “MySQL 101” that runs April 15-16. MySQL …

IEEE Spectrum published a ranking of the most popular programming
languages. Computational journalist Nick Diakopoulos wrote the
article. While it may surprise some, I wasn’t
surprised to find SQL in the top ten.

Nick weighted and combined 12 metrics from 10
sources (including IEEE Xplore, Google, and GitHub) to rank the
most popular programming languages.

“HBase and Hadoop are the only technologies proven to
scale to dozens of petabytes on commodity servers, currently
being used by companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Adobe and
Salesforce.com.”–Monte Zweben.

Is it possible to turn Hadoop into a RDBMS? On this topic, I have
interviewed Monte Zweben, Co-Founder and Chief
Executive Officer of Splice Machine.

RVZ

Q1. What are the main challenges of applications and
operational analytics that support real-time, interactive queries
on data updated in real-time for Big Data?

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